photo l.a. 2007, the largest Photographic Art Exposition in the United States, will be held January 18 - 21 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, located at 1855 Main Street. Created by Stephen Cohen, producer of the highly acclaimed art fairs photo new york, photo san francisco, photo MIAMI and ART LA, the show will feature the finest photographic art on display and for sale, from the earliest 19th Century photographic experiments to the most contemporary photography and photo-based art.

A preview reception benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation will be held on Thursday, January 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. A lecture and seminar series will also take place from January 19-21 with guest lecturers including internationally renowned photographers Anderson & Low, Jim Goldberg, Mona Kuhn, Todd Hido and Alec Soth. Mary Virginia Swanson, photography consultant, Stephen White, collector, historian and dealer in art photography and Virginia Heckert, associate curator of photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will address seminar participants.

Exhibition hours are Friday, January 19 and Saturday, January 20, 12p.m. to 7p.m. and Sunday, January 21, 12p.m. to 6p.m. Tickets are $20 for a one-day pass and $30 for a three-day pass. Lectures are $10 each and onsite collecting seminars are $80 (includes a three day pass and catalog). Student discounts for lectures and the fair are available with valid I.D. Tickets to the opening benefit reception on Thursday, January 18th are $100. All exhibition, lecture and preview reception tickets are available for purchase at the door or in advance. Seminar tickets should be purchased in advance.

2007 EXHIBITORS

ACE Gallery | Joseph Bellows Gallery | Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller | Caracola Contemporary | John Cleary Gallery | Cohen Amador Gallery | Stephen Cohen Gallery | Czech Center of Photography | D.A.P | Stephen Daiter Gallery | David Gallery | Michael Dawson Gallery | de Soto Gallery | Katrina Doerner | Etherton Gallery | Fotovision | Henry Feldstein | Peter Fetterman Gallery | Foley | Gitterman Gallery | Charles Guice Contemporary | Hackelbury Fine Art | The Halsted Gallery | Harper's Books | Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. | Charlotte Jackson Fine Art | Jenkins Johnson Gallery | Jan Kesner Gallery | Paul Kopeikin Gallery | Craig Krull Gallery | Lee Gallery | Los Angeles Center For Digital Art | M+B | Magnum Photos | Daneyal Mahmood Gallery | Lee Marks Fine Art | Carl Mautz Vintage Photography | Yossi Milo Gallery | Modernbook Gallery | Richard Moore Photographs | Monroe Gallery of Photography | Nazraeli Press | Scott Nichols Gallery | Gallery 19/21 | Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery | Galleria PaciArte Contemporary | Picture Photo Space Inc. | photo-eye Gallery | Serge Plantureux | Queensland Centre for Photography | Yancey Richardson Gallery | Rose Gallery | SCALO|GUYE & LEADAPRON | Schaden.com | Select Vernacular/Norman Kulkin | Lisa Sette Gallery | Barry Singer Gallery | Joel Soroka Gallery | Susan Spiritus Gallery | Studio 391 Fine Photography | Carole Thompson Fine Art | 21st Editions | Twin Palms Publishing | Vintage Works, Ltd. | Weinstein Gallery | Winter Works on Paper | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | VOICES